It never ceases to bewilder me how Republicans can extol the wealth and business acumen of members of their party who have gotten rich through fraud and deceit, like Trump, and mock and deride people like Bloomberg, Soros and Ocasio-Cortez for being wealthy, as if to be a Democrat is to take an oath of poverty.
The fact that these wealthy Democrats have released their tax returns and Trump has not is not even a small factor in Republican opprobrium.
The way things are going with the Republican brand these days, I wonder if even switching to become Republicans would help raise the rich Democrats because the source of their wealth was legitimate.
Most Americans assume that they are in the middle class and transitioning to becoming wealthy so don't object to tax cuts as they assume that some day they will need them. Republicans accept the road to wealth is corruption whether their role is public or private citizen. Wealthy Democrats in public office or private pay taxes on what they got from corruption and so feel exhonorated.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right about Democrats paying taxes on ill gotten gains but it beats adding tax evasion to their felonies as Republicans do.
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